TestDirector Contract Job Trends

HP TestDirector for Quality Center
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TestDirector skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 522 572
Rank change year-on-year -104 +50 +161
Contract jobs citing TestDirector 2 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.017% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.034% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £426 - £450
25th Percentile £443 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - £489
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.95%
75th Percentile £535 - £535
90th Percentile £559 - £1,069
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £480
% change year-on-year - - +1.05%

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestDirector falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,810 4,041 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.46% 13.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,909 2,680 3,559
10th Percentile £342 £331 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 68 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.44
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

TestDirector
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TestDirector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

TestDirector job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestDirector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestDirector

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestDirector over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TestDirector in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestDirector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TestDirector

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Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestDirector within the UK over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -101 2 £483 - 3
South East -43 1 £550 - 3
London -50 1 £415 -
UK excluding London -97 1 £550 - 3

TestDirector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP